Month: May 2013

Is anyone keeping a comprehensive record of recent Republican references to “worse than” Watergate, Iran-Contra, impeachment, “arrested,” and other key phrases to BOLO?

On this whole Associated Press thing, it’s good to put things in some context. Why was the AP so hellbent on publishing that we had disrupted a new al-Qaeda plot to blow up airliners with underwear bombs? The answer is...

Previously published here. I’m inclined to award this to Michael Tomasky for his “Fire Holder”  article in which he gives the following hilarious advice to President Obama: And if Obama permits these...

I don’t know if Alexander Burns and John Harris of Politico are so much commenting on a new narrative as they are trying to construct one. Perhaps they are trying to write the definitive version. The narrative is personal....

More precisely it was a celebration of the one year anniversary of the decision in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission.  And that celebration was on January 11, 2011, but somehow I missed it.  More...